11 comments:

Very interesting and well done! I know I never could have even thought of writing a story when I was 11. I did not like reading until college, unless it was something about radio. I tried typing at the same age. I doubt even my typing would have been anywhere near as good as yours. Nice work. Thank you for the post. I look forward to the rest.

@ machinengeschriben: The secretary is based on a character in the Oz books, Tic-Tok the Machine Man, who was wound up with a key. He always spoke "mechanically", and the author Frank Baum used hyphens between every syllable to convey this.

Thanks very much for sharing this story! I'm looking forward to the next installment. At eleven, I was just beginning to like writing stories. I might have started a multi-chapter story but never would have finished. This is much more imaginative than anything I would have written!

I love the line "She worked there up until Chapter 1." OMG that is so frigging precious! I love, Love, LOVE stories that kids write! (Which is why I've waited so long to read this...I wanted to wait until you had them all posted AND I wanted to make sure I had ample time to consume it!) Fabulous! (Weren't the Ruskies ALWAYS the bad guys back in the day?!)